This police thriller takes us through the story of Matt Jones, our hero. The books starts as Matt heads to a fancy restaurant in Los Angeles to celebrate with an old time friend and partner his recent promotion to the homicide division of hollywood. As he sits at the bar to wait for his friend, he gets a call from his new boss asking him to start early and head to a crime scene a few blocks away. Matt agrees, sends a message to his friend cancelling the celebration and heads out to the...
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Younger - by Suzanne Munshower
Posted on August 5th, 2016
The title of this book suggests the theme quite easily. A woman in her fifties, Anna, gets involved into a project that allows to rejuvenate her appearance by about twenty or thirty years. The context is well set up with a protagonist who is struggling to remain relevant after over twenty successful years in the make up marketing industry. A start with alternating chapters between Anna dealing with her...
Lean Enterprise - by Joanne Molesky, Barry O'Reilly and Jez Humble - Part II
Posted on July 29th, 2016
This book covers a lot about transforming a traditional enterprise into a newer, more suited Lean based company. It covers from finances to portfolio management going throught adoption, technical practices and lot more.
The book is long. And tiring. But full of very valid useful bits of knowledge. I’ve covered Part I in a previous...
Fated - by Sarah Fine
Posted on July 22nd, 2016
The last book of the Servants of Fate follows, as predicted in Claimed, Aislin Ferry and Jason Moros, respectively Charon of the Ferrys and Lord of the Kere. They are both struggling to keep their power over their respective empires. While Aislin has to deal with family politics, Jason also has his own, quite different, family issues as one or more of his sisters are plotting against him and his Kere and he doesn't...
Lean Enterprise - by Joanne Molesky, Barry O'Reilly and Jez Humble - Part I
Posted on July 15th, 2016
This book covers a lot about transforming a traditional enterprise into a newer, more suited Lean based company. It covers from finances to portfolio management going throught adoption, technical practices and lot more.
The book is long. And tiring. But full of very valid useful bits of knowledge.
Broken down in 4 parts, it starts by covering culture, strategy and how innovation starts...
Refatoração em Ruby - by Marcos Brizeno
Posted on January 4th, 2016
This is a Portuguese-only book so I'll post the review in Portuguese.
This is just a short summary in English if you're interested:
Marcos introduces 9 of the Gang of Four's design patterns in Ruby. With great stories motivating the patterns and initial code samples, Marcos walks the reader through the work of refactoring code to design patterns. The...
The Dead Key - by D.M.Pulley
Posted on December 28th, 2015
This mystery novel starts slowly by introducing the reader to two young women starting their careers 20 years apart. In the late 70s, Beatrice is starting as a secretary at the First Bank of Cleaveland. 20 years later, in the late 90s, Iris is having her first job at an engineering firm that is in charge of drafting plans of all floors from the First Bank of Cleaveland's old...
The one that got away - by Simon Wood
Posted on December 14th, 2015
This exciting thriller introduces our hero and protagonist, Zöe, in her weakest and most vulnerable point. The book starts when she finds herself naked in a shack tied to the floor. All she remembers was coming back on a car trip with a friend of hers, Holli, from Las Vegas and then darkness. She can hear Holli screaming and crying in another shack...
Life after Blink - by Romily Cock
Posted on December 7th, 2015
This is a very short 5 chapters book for those of you who have recently purchased or would like to purchase a simple common Arduino (or Arduino kit).
All Arduinos come with a short instruction to run the 'blink' program which essentially just blinks a LED (usually one that is embedded in the Arduino board itself) to show that everything is working. From then on, the owner of the Arduino is...
Claimed - by Sarah Fine
Posted on November 30th, 2015
The sequence from Marked follows a very similar style and story line. Marked had focused on Eli and Cacy and their growing romance. Eli being a new firefighter/rescuer in Boston and Cacy Ferry, the daughter of the most powerful man in Boston and his co-worker.
Our focus this time is on Galena, Eli's sister, and Chief Declan Ferry, Eli's boss and Cacy's brother. Galena is leading...